Memorials

Mary Beale 1633-1699 - portrait painter Born Mary Cradock, the daughter of a Suffolk clergyman and Puritan, Beale was one of the very few women artists working in England during the seventeenth century. In this self-portrait she affirms not only her work as an artist by the palette hanging on the wall behind her, but also her status as a mother: the canvas she holds portrays her sons Batholomew and Charles (who later became a miniature painter). In 1652 she married Charles Beale, an amateur painter, and by 1654 or thereabouts the couple were in London where Mary embarked on a semi-professional career as a portrait painter. In 1666 she established a studio and became friends with Sir Peter Lely, the leading portrait painter of the day. Her husband Charles was her assistant, mixing her paints and keeping the books. Mary Beale worked steadily until she died aged sixty-six and is buried in St James's, Piccadilly.

East wall, north end 1. Tablet commemorating damage to church, 14 Oct. 1940, rededication by William, Bishop of London, 19 June 1954, A. E. Richardson, architect for reconstruction, Charles E. Lambert, rector, Nov. 1922– April 1954, Geoffrey Bostock, Janet Scrutton, churchwardens.North aisle, east to west 1. The Revd. Joseph McCormick, D.D., rector 1900–14, 9 April 1914. 2. Harriet, wife of the Revd John Edward Kempe, rector, 13 Dec. 1872. 3. Peter William Gilkes, freemason, Past Master, 11 Dec. 1833. 4. Sir Francis Lumm, bart., Governor of Ross Castle, 1 March 1797. 5. Sir Richard Croft, bart., M.D., 13 Feb. 1818; his wife Margaret (daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Denman), 24 Sept. 1847. Sir Richard Croft, accoucheur, was accused of negligence at the accouchement of George IV's daughter, Princess Charlotte, which caused her death in 1817; he shot himself. 6. General John Studholme Hodgson, Colonel of the King's Own Regiment, 10 Jan. 1846. He served in North America and Holland and as Governor of Bermuda and Curaçao. 7. John Waite, 23 Oct. 1820; his wife Anna Lloyd Waite, 14 Oct. 1850; their son, James Bembow Waite, 8 June 1831. 8. Edward Hewitt, merchant, 20 Oct. 1794. 9. Mary Delany (daughter of Bernard Granville, wife to (1) Alexander Pendarves of Cornwall, (2) Patrick Delany, D.D., Dean of Down), 15 April 1788. 10. John Hewitt, private secretary to James, Viscount Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1 March 1783. 11. John Willock of Golden Square, magistrate of the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex, 12 Nov. 1825. 12. Sir George Baker, bart., M.D., F.C.P., F.R.S., 15 June 1809. He was appointed physician to George III in 1776. He published several medical works. 13. Hugh Beavan, 23 Feb. 1837. 14. Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, Colonel of the 72nd Highlanders, K.C.B., etc., 13 June 1847; his second son Arthur Wellington Campbell, Captain in the 14th Regiment, 21 Jan. 1846. Sir Colin Campbell served in the West Indies, India, Denmark, Portugal, the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He became Governor of Nova Scotia in 1833 and of Ceylon in 1839. 15. Jane, Lady Baker, 30 July 1813. 16. General Archibald Campbell, 1 Dec. 1825. 17. William Yarrell, zoologist and bookseller, 1 Sept. 1856. He was an original member of the Zoological Society and treasurer and vice-president of the Linnean Society. 18. Guy Johns(t)on of Guy Park, New York, American loyalist, superintendent of Indian affairs in North America, 1788. 19. Charles Todd, late of the East India Company, 18 Dec. 1813. 20. Edward Gaunt of Staple Inn, 21 Nov. 1716; his wife Lucy (daughter of Edward Fuller), 27 Nov. 1710. 21. Major-General Colebrooke Nesbitt, 21 July 1798; his youngest daughter, Caroline, 18 May 1814. 22. Mary, widow of C. Todd, 23 Jan. 1823. 23. Frederick William De La Rochefoucauld, soldier, a French Protestant who came to England with his father, Comte de Roye et De Roucy, in 1687, and served both James II and William III, who created him Earl of Lifford in Ireland, 24 Feb. 1749. 24. Arthur Johnson, 18 Aug. 1703; his wife Martha, 2 May 1721. 25. Mary Beatrice Johnson, Sunday-school worker, 23 April 1929. (Carved by Eric Gill) 26. Richard Bright, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., physician extraordinary to the Queen, 16 Dec. 1858. He gave his name to the disease which he discovered. West end, north to south 1. World War I, 1914–18, parishioners. 2. World War II, 1939– 1945, Robert Bennett, Thomas Middlemiss, former choristers; Charles Murray, verger, and his wife Edith. 3. John Malin, churchwarden for twenty-three years, 1913. 4. John Thomas Wimperis, F.R.I.B.A., churchwarden 1880–1, 22 Dec. 1904. 5. Frederick Orlando Puleston Crane, churchwarden, 20 May 1891. 6. John Mayhew, churchwarden, 11 May 1811; his wife Bridget, 11 March 1805. 7. John Haines, citizen and carpenter of London, Governor of Bridewell and Bethlem, High Constable of Westminster, first churchwarden of the parish, 10 Jan. 1690/1; his wife Mary, 17 Dec. 1719. He designed the second vestry room. 8. Mary, Lady Marow (daughter of Sir Arthur Caley, wife to (1) Sir Samuel Marow, (2) Francis Fisher), 19 Oct. 1714. 9. Major-General Digby Hamilton, Colonel of the Royal Waggon Train, 18 March 1820. 10. Sarah Marsh, 6 Aug. 1860.South aisle, west to east 1. Amand Vilmet, servant to George IV, 24 April 1848; his wife Mayrose, March 1832, and their son Henry. 2. Thomas Rose, 21 Jan. 1829, and five of his children. 3. Two sons of Augustus Eliott Fuller and his wife Clara, William Lowndes Fuller, 10 Feb. 1825, Richard Garth Fuller, 6 Sept. 1812. 4. William Caddick, metal merchant, 1 Oct. 1796. 5. Richard A'Hmuty, 6 April 1816; Ursula A'Hmuty, 10 April 1823; Richard A'Hmuty, 18 Sept. 1823. 6. Charles Noble of Old Burlington Street, 4 April 1827; his wife Jane, 29 Sept. 1827. 7. Jean Hendrie, widow of Lewis Hendrie, 31 Jan. 1822; their son Patrick, 25 Dec. 1822. 8. The Hon. Baptist Leveson Gower, 4 Aug. 1782. 9. The Rt. Hon. Lady Susanna Lort (daughter of the Earl of Clare and widow of Sir John Lort), 18 May 1710, and her grandson Gilbert Campbell (son of Sir Alexander Campbell and his wife Elizabeth), 4 March 1710. 10. Henry Potts, late Secretary of the General Post Office, 1 Jan. 1768. 11. Burnet Abercromby, 24 Mar. 1792. 12. Edward Trotter, Prebendary of Downe, Ireland, 8 July 1777. 13. Anne Boscawen (daughter of General George Boscawen, and niece of Admiral Boscawen), fifty-four years in the service of Queen Charlotte, 14 Feb. 1831. 14. Margaret, wife of Michael Yates, 17 Aug. 1816; their son Robert Burton, 19 Feb. 1817. 15. John Grundy, 8 Aug. 1699; his wife Martha, 3 Jan. 1716. 16. William Jones, scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 16 March 1812. 17. William Hunter, M.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., physician, physiologist and anatomist, who lived in Jermyn Street, 30 March 1783. He was appointed physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte in 1764 and president of the Medical Society in 1781. His museum was acquired by Glasgow University. 18. Samuel Turner, LL.D. and R.S.S., of the East India service, 2 Jan. 1802. He led an expedition into Tibet, 1783–4, and published an account of his travels. 19. Henry Nesbitt Brooke (son of Thomas Henry and Ann Brooke), 20 May 1823. 20. Francis Ernest Jackson, A.R.A., 1945. 21. Bartholomew Frere, 29 May 1851. He was the son of John Frere, antiquary, and served in the diplomatic service in Spain and at Constantinople. 22. Alexander Foxcroft of Nottingham, merchant, 17 Dec. 1774. 23. William Steer of Pall Mall, 3 Dec. 1833. 24. John Jackson, D.D., 1885 (memorial window destroyed in the war of 1939–45, tablet underneath). He was rector of St. James's 1846– 1853, Bishop of Lincoln, 1853–69 and Bishop of London, 1869–85.North vestibule, floor 1. George Spencer Watson, R.A., painter, 1869–1934. 2. Robert Anning Bell, R.A., 27 Nov. 1933. 3. Sir Herbert E. P. Hughes-Stanton, R.A., President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1920– 1936, 2 Aug. 1937. 4. Sir James Jebusa Shannon, K.B., R.A., born in New York State, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Member of the French Academy, 6 March 1923. 5. Frederick William Pomeroy, R.A., sculptor, 26 May 1924.North vestibule, walls 1. Lieutenant-General Hugh Mackay Gordon, Colonel of 16th Foot, Lt.-Governor of Jersey, 12 March 1823. 2. Stephen Peter Rigaud, author, mathematical historian and astronomer. Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford, and Radcliffe Observer, 16 March 1839 (erected 1874). 3. John Basil Oldham, M. A., curate of St. James's, 12 April 1871. 4. Matthias Arntz of Düsseldorf, Sept. 1830; his wife Martha (daughter of Joseph Cantwell), 1 Dec. 1838. 5. William Blake, poet and painter, 1757–1827 (modern tablet commemorating baptism). 6. The Hon. Henry Ramsay, July 1808. 7. Colonel Courtenay Chambers, Lieutenant Colonel of 25th Regiment, The King's Own Borderers, 18 June 1848. 8. Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624–89, who lived in Pall Mall and was buried in the south aisle. He entered Magdalen Hall in 1642 but on the outbreak of the Civil War joined the Parliamentary forces; he returned to Oxford in 1646 and studied medicine. He wrote several medical works and his method of studying diseases, particularly epidemic, 'made an epoch in medical science'. The inscription on his memorial tablet, which was erected by the Royal College of Physicians in 1810, is flanked on either side by a coloured poppy in relief. 9. Richard Johnson, 1 Jan. 1841. 10. Lady Elizabeth Jane Brickenden (daughter of Richard, sixth Earl of Cavan), 17 Jan. 1830; her husband, the Revd Richard Brickenden, 22 July 1846. 11. James Whitshed of New Burlington Street, Feb. 1789. 12. Maria, wife of R. L. Townsend, 29 May 1841. 13. Thomas Denman, M.D., 26 Nov. 1815; his wife Elizabeth, 19 Jan. 1833. Thomas Denman, the elder, was surgeon to the Navy 1757–63, and physician-accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital 1769–83. He published several works on obstetrics. 14. James Leech Ridgway, 20 Nov. 1862; his wife Martha, 1 Jan. 1849. 15. Alexander Adair of Pall Mall, 17 March 1834; his wife Lydia (daughter of Sir William Thomas, bart.), 8 Oct. 1814. 16. John Swindell, 13 April 1831. 17. Captain Robert Sime, late of 78th Regiment of Foot, 12 Jan. 1840. 18. Robert Brookes, Lieutenant-Colonel of 24th Foot, served in Peninsula, N. America, France and India; killed at Battle of Chillian Wallah, 13 Jan. 1849. 19. Joseph Gawen of Waterloo Place, 1 Oct. 1833; his wife Jane, 14 Jan. 1861. 20. Sophia, wife of Thomas Mason, 10 Dec. 1826; Christiana Margaret, wife of Thomas Mason, 8 Oct. 1846; Samuel Prior Mason, 20 June 1833; Margaret Elizabeth Mason, 4 March 1836; Gilchrist Mason, 1 Sept. 1843; Margaret Mason, 4 March 1846. 21. James Dodsley, bookseller, of Pall Mall, 19 Feb. 1797. (Carved by John Flaxman, junior.) He and his brother Robert edited and published several works from their shop in Pall Mall. 22. George Buchanan, Captain in Scots Greys, 9 Nov. 1863.Central vestibule under tower 1. Willem Van De Velde, the elder, 1610/11–93, and his son Willem Van De Velde, the younger, 1633–1707; after 1673 (sic, D.N.B. gives 1675) they worked in England as painters of sea fights to Charles II and James II. (Erected 1929 by Society for Nautical Research.) 2. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan, K.C.B., D.S.O., 30 Sept. 1935. 3. Sir George Johnson, knight, M.D., F.R.C.P., emeritus professor of clinical medicine and consulting physician to King's College Hospital, physician extraordinary to the Queen, 3 June 1896. 4. Sir William Bowman, bart., F.R.S., LL.D., physiologist and ophthalmic surgeon, first president of Ophthalmological Society, 1892. Behind a temporary partition are two tablets not now visible which, according to The Revd J. Lambert, are memorials to Charles Cotton and the Leuchars family, respectively.South vestibule 1. Red Cross Motor Ambulance Service, 1914–18 (erected 1919). 2. Hugh Seymour Blane, Captain in 19th Lancers, 1 Nov. 1914. 3. Lieutenant James Virtue McEntire, London Scottish Regiment, 3 Aug. 1915. 4. Arthur's Club, 1914–19. 5. Charles Taverner Miller, 1 Sept. 1830; his son Charles George Miller, 6 June 1824. 6. Charles Jones of Jermyn Street, 4 Jan. 1827; his wife Albertina, 4 June 1830. 7. Thomas Alcock, M.R.C.S.L., surgeon to St. James's Workhouse, 1813–28, 21 Aug. 1833. 8. Benjamin Stillingfleet, 15 Dec. 1771. He was a botanist and author, grandson of Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester. He introduced the Linnean principle of classification into England and published a book on grasses. 9. James Baillie (son of Matthew Baillie, M.D., F.R.S., and his wife Sophia), 11 Jan. 1793. 10. John William Hunt, 3 May 1852; his wife Sarah, 9 Sept. 1832. 11. Major William Collins, 20 Jan. 1826. 12. Sir John Macnamara Hayes, bart., M.D., physician extraordinary to the Prince of Wales, Inspector-General of the Medical Dept. of the Ordnance, 1809; his wife Anne, Jan. 1848. 13. William Warre of Bradford, Somerset, 13 Sept. 1823. 14. Mary Elizabeth, wife of John Brydges of Bath, 27 Nov. 1847. 15. James Abbott, 8 Nov. 1873; his wife Ann, 6 Nov. 1858; their children Thomas William, 24 Dec. 1859, and Anne, 25 Aug. 1860. 16. James Redman, for twenty-six years clerk of the church, 19 Nov. 1899. 17. Edmund Chambers, for thirty years cashier to Messrs. Broadwood and Sons, 23 Sept. 1847; his wife Frances Eleanor, 1 Nov. 1832. 18. John Strongitharm, 7 March 1835; his wife Elizabeth, 7 Dec. 1847. 19. Ann, wife of John Watier, 13 Jan. 1835. 20. John Greenup of Halifax, Yorkshire, 24 Aug. 1818. 21. John Watier of Sloane Street, 21 Sept. 1828. 22. Henry Charles Ramus in the H.E.I.C. service in Bengal, 3 March 1822. 23. Alexander Tulloch, 23 May 1832; his wife Margaret, 5 Oct. 1834. 24. Mrs. Sarah Harrow, 3 Feb. 1819. 25. William Middleton, 29 April 1817. 26. Henry Knyvett, 15 Oct. 1843; his wife Sophia Elizabeth, 10 Oct. 1840. 27. Elizabeth Harriet Macvicar, 1818. 28. Henry E. A. Caulfeild, late Lieutenant and Captain in the 1st Regiment of Guards, 8 Sept. 1808. 29. Margaret Bruce (widow of James Hamilton), 19 Nov. 1818. 30. James Hamilton, 18 Oct. 1814. 31. John Tulloch, 22 May 1839; his wife Jane Ann (formerly Lushington), 22 May 1884; his sister Margaret Tulloch, 28 April 1855; his brother James Tulloch, F.R.S., 22 March 1863. 32. John Bennington, 9 Jan. 1841; his wife Ann, 13 Jan. 1828; their children, Blakey Spencer, 18 Sept. 1807, and Ann, 5 July 1846. 33. Martha, wife of John Harrison, F.R.C.S., 1861. 34. Lewis Waller, actor-manager, 1860–1915. Waller's real name was William Waller Lewis, and he was born in Spain. He was at various times manager of the Haymarket, Lyceum, Imperial and Lyric Theatres.South vestibule, outer wall On the south wall of the southern vestibule, concealed now by a closet which leads off the church room, is a tablet to 'Tom Durfey', 26 Feb. 1723, the poet and dramatist. He wrote comedies, satires, poems and songs, and the music for his Don Quixote was in part composed by the organist of St. James's Church, Ralph Courteville, senior. D'Urfey was very popular with Charles II and James II and published an elegy on the first and a panegyric on the second. He was buried at St. James's at the expense of the Earl of Dorset.Gallery, east end, south side 1. George, Earl of Huntingdon, 8 March 1704.Gallery, east end, north side 1. Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 8 April 1704. He was envoy to The Hague in 1679–81, and took the invitation to ascend the throne to William of Orange, whom he accompanied to England and Ireland. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1689, Secretary of State, 1690–1, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1692, Master-General of the Ordnance, 1693, Lord Justice, 1697, and Groom of the Stole, 1700–2. (ref. 213)Gallery, north side, east to west 1. Richard King, 4 Oct. 1693. 2. William Shaw, one of the chief clerks of the Treasury, 20 Jan. 1696/7 ; his wife Grace (daughter of John Masson), 30 Dec. 1726; their children, William, 5 Aug. 1739; Henrietta, 25 Feb. 1746/7; Mary, 6 Aug. 1748; and six other children who died in infancy. 3. Alice Young, 16 July 1765. 4. Maria (daughter of Theophilus Smith, citizen of London), wife of Archibald Hutcheson of the Middle Temple, 5 Jan. 1698.Gallery, west end, south side 1. Ludovic Oglethorpe, 1704. 2. Theophilus Oglethorpe, 1701. He served in Charles II's lifeguards and rose to the rank of brigadier-general and principal equerry to James II; he became M.P. for Haslemere, 1698. (ref. 213)Gallery, west end, north side Miles Peter Andrews, M.P. for Bewdley, 18 July 1814. He wrote several plays which were produced at Drury Lane, Haymarket and Covent Garden.Gallery, south side, west to east 1. Elizabeth Courteville (daughter of Major Gilbert Abbot and wife of Raphael Courteville, junior, 27 May 1735. 2. Lady Anne de Bey of Batilly (daughter of Rt. Hon. Anthony de Bey, Lord Baron of Batilly, Major-General to Louis XIII and Louis XIV, and of Lady Susanne de Pas), wife of Major-General Sir William Douglas, 20 March 1709. 3. John Combes, citizen and plasterer of London, 17 Sept. 1711; his wife Damaris, 6 April 1707. 4. Elizabeth (wife of Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, Captain-General and Governor of New York, and daughter of Dr. John Hodson, Bishop of Elphin, Ireland), 5 Nov. 1698.In the tower 1. Sir John William Lubbock, bart., 22 Oct. 1840. 2. James Macqueen of Duke Street, 1 June 1830. 3. Sarah, widow of James Macqueen, 17 Oct. 1837. 4. Mary, wife of the Revd Francis Pigou, 6 Aug. 1867, and their infant son Francis William Henry. 5. The Very Revd Gerrard Andrewes, Dean of Canterbury, rector of St. James's 1802–25, 2 June 1825; his wife Elizabeth Maria, 30 Dec. 1816; Miss Frances Andrewes, 19 Jan. 1823. 6. John Orton Harrison (a portrait bust, W. Behnes, sculptor), 16 June 1833. 7. Charles Samuel Miller, 22 June 1888. 8. Peter Frederick, 24 June 1858; Charlotte, 5 Jan. 1845; and Sally Maria, 22 June 1852, children of George and Charlotte (née Gibson) Robinson. 9. Newton Chambers, 'Ct.-Lt.', 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton with whom he fell at Waterloo, 18 June 1815.Exterior, west wall, north side 1. Mary, wife of Richard Barker, 24 Sept. 1791; Richard Barker, 23 May 1812; and their children.Exterior, west face of tower 1. Illegible. 2. Sir Thomas Elmsley Croft, bart., 29 Oct. 1835. 3. William Reeves of St. George's, Hanover Square, 7 March 1797.Exterior, east face of church room 1. Anne Twamley, 28 May 1832; her daughter Eliza Townley Twamley, 28 May 1832; her grandson Charles Richard Napoleon (son of Nicola and Mary Fienco), 28 May 1832; and her daughter Catherine Twamley, 17 Nov. 1861. We very gratefully acknowledge The Survey of London for this material.

Dr Thomas Sydenham, 1624–89, lived in Pall Mall and is buried in the south aisle... He wrote several medical works and his method of studying diseases, particularly epidemic, 'made an epoch in medical science'

John Basil Oldham, MA, curate of St. James's, 12 April 1871

John Haines, citizen and carpenter of London, Governor of Bridewell and Bethlem, High Constable of Westminster, first churchwarden of the parish, 10 Jan 1691

William Blake, poet and painter, 1757–1827

James Redman, for twenty-six years clerk of the church, 19 Nov 1899

Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 8 April 1704. He was envoy to The Hague in 1679–81, and took the invitation to ascend the throne to William of Orange, whom he accompanied to England and Ireland

Sir Richard Croft, accoucheur, was accused of negligence at the accouchement of George IV's daughter, Princess Charlotte, which caused her death in 1817; he shot himself

Henry Potts, late Secretary of the General Post Office, 1 Jan 1768 Samuel Turner, LL.D. and R.S.S., of the East India service, 2 Jan. 1802. He led an expedition into Tibet, 1783–4

Sir James Jebusa Shannon, KB, RA, born in New York State, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Member of the French Academy, 6 March 1923

Matthias Arntz of Düsseldorf, Sept. 1830 Willem Van De Velde, the elder, 1610/11–93, and his son Willem Van De Velde, the younger, 1633–1707; after 1673 they worked in England as painters of sea fights to Charles II and James II. (Erected 1929 by Society for Nautical Research)

Sir William Bowman, bart., F.R.S., LL.D., physiologist and ophthalmic surgeon, first president of Ophthalmological Society, 1892

James Dodsley, bookseller, of Pall Mall, 19 Feb. 1797. He and his brother Robert edited and published several works from their shop in Pall Mall Lewis Waller, actor-manager, 1860–1915. Waller's real name was William Waller Lewis, and he was born in Spain. He was at various times manager of the Haymarket, Lyceum, Imperial and Lyric Theatres

'Tom Durfey', 26 Feb. 1723, the poet and dramatist. He wrote comedies, satires, poems and songs, and the music for his Don Quixote was in part composed by the organist of St. James's Church, Ralph Courteville, senior. D'Urfey was very popular with Charles II and James II and published an elegy on the first and a panegyric on the second. He was buried at St. James's at the expense of the Earl of Dorset

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